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Around the world, שפר (Schaefer
, Schaffer
, Schäfer
) is a rare dominantly male, but infrequently girly given name. The first name שפר is habitual in Germany, where it is a very rare epicene name, Italy, and the United States, where it is a very rare largely boy's, but infrequently feminine name. In absolute terms, the name is most common in China, the United States, and Germany. Much more prevalently, שפר is the last name as well as the forename.
שפר is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Schäfer , the operatic character in the opera Leben des Orest.